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How to tag covered ‘forecourts’ at border crossings

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I was doing a MapRoulette challenge about buildings that intersect ways, and some looked like this:

example photo (at imgur)

It's a covered "forecourt". How should this be tagged? The way (road) isn't a tunnel, or go under ground. The road is covered by a roof, the building does extend out over the way. How should this be tagged.

asked 08 Jan '15, 21:20

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edited 08 Jan '15, 21:33

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The tag to use for these open sided roofs is building=roof:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building%3Droof

also used for petrol station etc.

answered 08 Jan '15, 21:51

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edited 08 Jan '15, 21:53

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… and an appropriate layer tag. For the road's way maybe covered=yes.

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